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3. Look at your competitors' source code
View your competitors' source code allows you to see if they have efficiently performed on page search engine optimization. You do not need to be a programmer to do this. All you need to look at are "title", "keywords" and "description" tags. I'm not suggesting to copy thier tags but learn from them and use the keywords tool from Google to help you build better keywords for your site.

4. Create a relevance title
Your title tag should include top 3 keywords. From many articles I read, it said that your title should not be more than 95 characters and should not have no more than 3 commas. Having more than 3 commas in your title, some search engine may consider more than 3 commas as spam.

5. Create a useful keywords
There are some suggestions to have about 15-20 keywords in your meta-keywords. Do not overuse or repeat your keywords. For example, "Thai recipes" is already a good keywords. I should not add "latest Thai recipes." Use Google keywords tool to help you find good keywords.

6. Create a short, concise description
Your description should include most of your keywords. Description can be upto 255 characters, avoid using more than 3 commas. Also try to remove prepositions like "and" as this will only hurt your search engine optimization. The fewer, more relevant the words, the higher your search engine ranking will be.

7. Add meta-robots
Add It tells search robots to index the page and follow the links. Of course there are other combinations if you like to use, for example, "index, nofollow", "noindex, follow" and "noindex, nofollow"

8. Body content
- Use

... tags to highlight your most relevance keywords.
- The body content of your Web page should be rich with keywords and relevant content. You should have each keyword appear at least once for every 1-2 paragraphs. Do not stuff your content with keywords. Do not over or Under use keywords!
- For images, give your image a good title and description (providing title and alt tags for images).

10. Site map
Add site map in your footer. Search engines love site map because it help them to find links easily.

11. Validate your site
Your code should have valid html and doc type. If you are using firefox, install web developer 1.1.6 and Html Validator 0.8.5.2 Or you can validate your site online at http://validator.w3.org/

12. Seach engine submission
Submitting your site directly to the search engines can take weeks or months to get your site listed. If you like to here're some links:

The best way to achieve high search engine rankings for new Web sites is to get listed on top ranking pages that are relevant to your Web site's content. These high ranking pages are often optimized on a weekly or even daily basis. Every time the site is indexed your link will appear and the search engines will automatically list your site in its index.

To do this you need to search for Web sites indexed by search engines and get them to link to you. You will need to write article(s) relevant to your site. At the bottom of the article you include your web page URL to get picked up by the search engines.

Some article directories may not apply to your business, so you may need to browse around the site at first. I have started to write articles and submitted to 5 different article sites. Your article will not be posted right away. It needs to be reviewed and gets approval.

13. Ask a website to link back to your site
If you know someone that would put a link to your site, do so. If you don't, you can certainly write to them and ask.

14. Tell your family and friends.

For now, we can't really do anything about meta-keywords, meta-robots. I'm waiting for Synthasite to add these features. As for site map, I can do it now but I am not sure if I should follow the Google's site map guidelines.

Don't try to win over search engines, do the best you can and let them find you.
I did everything I can and now I'm going to wait and see. You're welcome to visit my site at http://thaicookinghouse.com

Thanks for all the great information. I just have to tell you that the new release of SynthaSite is going live as I type! If you check back in a few hours you will be able to add Google Webmaster and keywords to your site from specially designated fields in the properties sidebar

Also, for those who don't know how to do it with HTML, you can add a favicon (but you already have that covered on your site!)

I really appreciate the time you took to share these valuable insights with the SynthaSite community!

Of course, it's javascript. Use can view the source code of my main page. Just copy and paste. And then change the images' file name and the dimension of the image.
All of your images should have the same height and width to make it work nicely. There are 2 different sets of javacript, copy the long one. The function, toggleblock() doesn't apply to slides show. The toggleblock() is for expand/collapse div, you can see example at the Articles section on my site.

Niddy I can not thank you enough for the information you provided in this one post! I'm copying and will review each step! as it applies to my site and beyond. Met to let you know a few days ago that your site is highlighted on my Squidoo page, here is the address: http://www.squidoo.com/free_website_w....